November 24, 2020

November 24th is the 329th day of the year. There are 37 days remaining until the end of the year.

Seven new positive COVID19 cases over the weekend according to the C-K Public Health Unit.

There were 11 recoveries, so there are now 28 active cases.

Ontario reported 1,589 new coronavirus cases on Monday. The hot spots continue to be Peel, Toronto and York.

The spread of #COVID19 has reached a critical point. We need everyone to do their part and follow public health advice to #StopTheSpread of #COVID19:
✅#PhysicalDistancing
✅#WearAMask
✅#WashYourHands thoroughly and often
✅ #StayHome when you’re feeling ill

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) November 23, 2020

There’s a Blood Donor Clinic at the Chatham-Kent YMCA this afternoon from 1-7.

Donations by appointment only.

Book your appointment now at Blood.ca, use the apps or call 1-888-2-DONATE!

On Monday, the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey Leauge announced they’ll push back the start date for the 2020-21 season.

The tentative start date for January 15 pending regional public health approval.

Teams will play within brackets in their conferences that will see teams play only one opponent during a set time frame. Teams will play in a three-week cycle and will take a 14-day isolation break to exchange cohorts.

The Chatham Maroons play in the GOJHL. For more information, go here.

When the clock officially rolls over into 2021, tens of millions of old Canadian bills will lose their legal tender status, meaning they technically can’t be used in transactions.

The Bank of Canada has issued a reminder that the change will affect the $1, $2, $25, $500, and $1,000 notes, which haven’t been produced in decades, and are typically not used in transactions, unless of course they’re being bought or sold by collectors.

So, what should you do if you have a $1,000 bill? The BoC says the simplest thing is to bring the bill to your bank and have it exchanged for legal currency.

By far, the rarest and arguably most valuable of the soon-to-be-defunct currency is the $500 note, which can sell to a collector at $50,000 in very good condition. But good luck finding one, It was a commemorative note released only in 1935; the BoC says there were only 40 left in circulation at the end of 2019.

The $25 note was also a commemorative bill issued in 1935 and discontinued shortly thereafter. There are 1,840 in circulation.

Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year, is actually phrases of the year.

The editors say that when they were deciding on their annual pick for Word of the Year, “It quickly became apparent that 2020 is not a year that could neatly be accommodated in one single word of the year.”

So instead, they picked dozens of words that sum up, “the phenomenal breadth of language change and development over the year.”

Those words include: COVID-19, work-from-home, lockdown, support bubbles, essential workers, furlough, Black Lives Matter, mail-in, superspreader, social distancing, QAnon and impeachment.

OXFORD WORD OF THE YEAR 2020:

With everything that has happened throughout 2020, we concluded that this year could not be summarized by one single “Word of the Year”.

Download our Words of an Unprecedented Year report for the full story. #WOTY2020

— Oxford Languages (@OxLanguages) November 22, 2020

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This post was written by Chris McLeod